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smurf80 Experienced

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Not worth it mate, Do a search as there have been a couple of threads on this. Basically to sum it up a turbo motor has less compression to allow for boost. If you took the turbo off and blocked everything up you would be left with a motor that had less grunt then a factory delivered NA.

Not saying it cant be done but the work envolved you would have to think twice. This price must be damn good as GT's can be picked up for around 20g's these days depending on where you are and four door models are cheaper again.

Or am I guessing because your on your P's you want to take all the gear off and re attach everything when you go of your P's?

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Yeh, like he said you won't make much power because of the low comp ratio. Also the car will still say it's a R34 GTT on the chassis or vin and the rego so cops can probably still dog you (especially if they don't know what a turbo is and where to look fo rit)

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the car would still be on the rta computers as a gtt with a turbo. So the cops could and most likely would dick you.

If you did change it you would need to have that engineered to say it was ok.

However doubt it would pass, as they could simply say " what stops you bolting it back on after you get the ok to drive it"

Just stick with a NA from factory

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yea..it scoz im on restrictions i wanna put it back on once i'm off my p's.. i dont really care performance wise i know it woudl be worse, im just wanna know if theres any chance of damage to the engine? btw the car is 20k, grade 5, its really really nice. Is it worth it or shoudl i just wait a year?

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They did make Rb26DE's and the put them in sedans im pretty sure. Do asearch on them here as im pretty sure phunky monkey was the one that had all the info on them. I think they were marketed as a good tow vehicle or something from memory??

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yea..it scoz im on restrictions i wanna put it back on once i'm off my p's.. i dont really care performance wise i know it woudl be worse, im just wanna know if theres any chance of damage to the engine? btw the car is 20k, grade 5, its really really nice. Is it worth it or shoudl i just wait a year?

Is the car already landed here and 20g is the final price or are you looking on an auction website or something?

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yea..it scoz im on restrictions i wanna put it back on once i'm off my p's.. i dont really care performance wise i know it woudl be worse, im just wanna know if theres any chance of damage to the engine? btw the car is 20k, grade 5, its really really nice. Is it worth it or shoudl i just wait a year?

If it's only a year till you can have a turbo one, i'd just buy a cheap economical car for a year, and use the money saved on petrol, insurance and buggerizing around making it NA, to modify the turbo one when you are allowed to drive it. The price for the car will come down in 12 months as well. You would really just be throwing money down the drain if you paid for someone to convert it to NA and then paid them again 12 months later to turn it back to turbo. Thats got to be a couple of grand spent on a car that after the outlay of extra money is still a stock GTT.

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